There is also an excellent tracker for enacted and pending state RFRA's at Don Byrd's Blog from the Capital: http://bjconline.org/state-RFRA-tracker-2015/ It is kept updated. It does not however cover the state constitutional part.
Howard Friedman ________________________________ From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of James Oleske [jole...@lclark.edu] Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 3:20 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: State RFRAs and their equivalents In addition to Doug's piece, this March 2014 post from Eugene has a map and comprehensive legend covering both RFRAs and state constitutional provisions that have been interpreted as providing exemption rights: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/03/24/religious-exemptions-a-guide-for-the-confused/ Mississippi, Indiana, and Arkansas have since adopted RFRAs. I don't know if any additional states have interpreted their constitutions to require exemptions since March 2014, but Washington State's Supreme Court will soon be hearing a case (the florist/same-sex marriage case) in which it will be called upon to apply the state's constitutional provision on religious freedom. Although Eugene has Washington listed in the constitutional "strict scrutiny" category, and although the Washington Supreme Court has continued to use "compelling interest"/"narrow means" language, it has also used "reasonableness" language, which has muddied the waters. See City of Woodinville v. Northshore United Church of Christ, 211 P.3d 406, 410 n.3 (2009) ("Of course, the government may require compliance with reasonable police power regulation."). - Jim On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Douglas Laycock <dlayc...@virginia.edu<mailto:dlayc...@virginia.edu>> wrote: I collect these in my Illinois piece, in footnotes in the 20s. Indiana and Arkansas have been enacted since. On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:16:12 -0500 Marty Lederman <lederman.ma...@gmail.com<mailto:lederman.ma...@gmail.com>> wrote: >Is there a reliable, up-to-date list of state RFRAs and state >constitutional provisions that have, more or less, been construed to >incorporate Sherbert/Yoder? I know that many are compiled in Chris's 2010 >article. Anything more recent? > >Thanks in advance. Douglas Laycock Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law University of Virginia Law School 580 Massie Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 434-243-8546<tel:434-243-8546> _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
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